For decades, researchers have sought safe and effective treatments for depression. Even today, there is no single depression treatment which has been proven to work for everyone. Depression is often treated with antidepressant medications; however, alternative treatments for depression are available.
Alternate depression therapies have been shown to work in people who do not receive benefit from medications or cannot tolerate the side effects caused by them. One alternative therapy for the treatment of depression is transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
TMS of Knoxville’s MagVenture TMS Therapy system is an FDA-cleared solution for patients suffering from depression who have not achieved satisfactory improvement from prior antidepressant medications.
For a “deep dive” thorough understanding of why TMS helps depression, click the book below to reach the page Treatment-Resistant Depression
TMS is the breakthrough technology for non-drug treatment of depression and promises to be the future of psychiatric treatment—providing hope for patients for whom medication treatment and psychotherapy have failed to achieve satisfactory results. At TMS of Knoxville, we have successfully treated many patients with treatment resistant depression
